In the past if you wanted to integrate Creative Commons license selection with your web application, there was one solution: the partner interface. Today there’s a second way: the Ajax Chooser. The Ajax Chooser is a PHP+Javascript library derived from wpLicense which encapsulates a license chooser. Ajax Chooser uses the CC web services to load…
The ‘best Creative Commons animation ever’ has been fansubbed. The original came with a CC license that allows derivative works, but also provided the script and source files. The fansubbers have provided French and English subtitle files. All together a great example of using licensing plus component materials to encourage reuse.
Staccato, a music program featuring all Creative Commons licensed tracks, launched late last year and has featured some great interviews and lots of great music. Last week saw the release of Staccato #21, a “best of” program also featuring an extended interview with Creative Commons chair Lawrence Lessig. Listen now.
Creative Commons made an appearance of sorts in the free software in-joke comic Everybody loves Eric Raymond. As it happens the strip is CC-licensed. That makes at least two. Thanks to Will for the pointer.
With all of the public debate about the role of innovation in music and movies, it’s not surprising that discussion of the uses of Creative Commons licenses tends to be about their place in the music and movie industries. When there is discussion about text and books, it tends to be about academic works, like…
Sometimes we get thirsty here at CC-HQ, and so sometimes we head up to the coffee machine and press the button for coffee. Or sometimes we make espresso and dump the left over grounds down the drain until the drainage pipe clogs and our downstairs neighbors get a wonderful espresso-ground shower. And then sometimes we…
NINJAM is a free software product that lets you jam (make music) with other NINJAM users across the net. It’s weirder and cooler than just that. All tracks, remote and local, can be saved individually for offline remixing, and all NINJAMmers agree to use a Creative Commons license in order to participate. The weirder part…
Free computer art software visual artist activist programmer (mix and match, also CC mailing list discussant) Rob Myers has a lecture (July 29) and exhibition (running July 27 – August 8) at o3one gallery in Belgrade, Serbia, supported by the British Council. From 1969 by Rob Myers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Addendum: Pictures of…
The Magnatune Lisa DeBenedictis Remix Contest on ccMixter is soon coming to a close. The deadline for entries is July 31st. Send your remixes in soon!
I’m always amazed at how far the power of invention mixed with a determination to realize your idea on a large scale can take you. That’s why the new PBS one hour television series about the people who are shaping technology and the Silicon Valley landscape seems so interesting. PBS will be launching NerdTV, the…